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• The Enneagram And The Practice Of Law

  

  Study of the Enneagram personality typing system can provide attorneys with better insights into themselves, and into those they interact with professionally, including clients, opposing counsel and judges, says Jennifer Gibbs of Zelle LLP.

• What Open Banking Has In Store For Wealth Managers

  

  This year, the revised Payment Services Directive takes effect in the EU, providing the legal framework for open banking, which is intended to encourage competition in the retail banking sector by enabling customers to consent to allowing third parties safe and secure access to their current accounts, says Neil Warlow of JLT Specialty.

• What To Expect From Blockchain In 2018

  

  Blockchain's growth next year is unlikely to match its 2017 growth, but 2018 may well be a much more impactful year in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Emerging themes and initiatives include smart contracts, state-backed cryptocurrencies and the maturation of the initial coin offering market, says Austin Mills, head of the blockchain and cryptocurrency group at Morris Manning & Martin LLP.

• Hearing The Need For More Women’s Voices In The Courtroom

  

  For many female attorneys, the results revealed in the New York State Bar Association’s recently adopted report on female litigators in the courtroom were not encouraging but not terribly surprising. Each stakeholder in the litigation process — judges, law firms and corporate clients — should contribute toward increasing female voices in the courtroom, says Carrie Cohen of Morrison & Foerster LLP.

• Legal Technology In 2017: Trends And Implications

  

  This has been a year of critical mass for legal tech and a transformative year for the legal industry as a whole. We also witnessed increased collaboration between legal tech companies and more traditional players, says Nicole Moriniere of Lexoo.

• A GDPR Primer For US-Based Cos. Handling EU Data: Part 2

  

  In the final part of this series about the General Data Protection Regulation, attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP explain the stringent restrictions placed on cross-border data transfers to countries outside of the European Union, various compliance mechanisms and penalties, and potential deviations in implementation among EU member states.

• A GDPR Primer For US-Based Cos. Handling EU Data: Part 1

  

  While many U.S. companies have already begun work on complying with the General Data Protection Regulation, it has such a long reach that it may encompass many organizations that would not ordinarily expect to be subject to European data privacy laws, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

• Keeping Your Law Library Relevant In The Age Of Google

  

  Google’s status as a go-to research tool has transformed legal research habits, leading critics to view law libraries as cost centers. Law firms should embrace Google-style research tools and manage costs efficiently in order to position their libraries as valuable assets for years to come, says Donna Terjesen of HBR Consulting.

• Health And Insurance In And Outside The UK After Brexit

  

  The upcoming divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union will have ramifications for health, safety and personal injury claims in the U.K., as well as for U.K. residents' access to insurance while traveling in the European Economic Area, says John Hall of Tilly Bailey & Irvine LLP.

• Financial Institutions Must Invest In FATCA Compliance

  

  The deadline for foreign financial institutions to sign up with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act registration system came and went last month. While deregulatory and tax reform efforts in Washington could eventually change FATCA enforcement, for the time being, failure to be in compliance can have serious implications, say attorneys with Burr & Forman LLP.